Photo Management - F-Spot or Alternative

[Jason Carson]

Another alternative if you have a LAMP server available is to use Gallery...

http://gallery.menalto.com

...I use it for all my photos and my Mother/Brother love it because its
easy to use. Version 3 was released a few weeks ago.

>
> I've been using F-Spot for a while now, mainly to import pictures from the
> camera. I like the way it stores them into date directories.
>
> Now I am organizing my photos using the tags facility it provides. But the
> capabilities are a bit limiting. A key component missing is the ability to
> display photos in albums sorted any way I want. I can make up albums
> simply by making use of the tags in certain ways, but it has very little
> flexibility in the way the photos are displayed other than the default
> (chronological by date stamp) or in reverse. There are suppose to be
> options to sort by file size, which my F-Spot doesn't have, but that isn't
> the same as displaying in any desired order.
>
> The F-Spot manual doesn't have a way to do this and I couldn't find a
> solution through Google, which means there probably isn't one. I'm left
> with looking for alternatives. Is anyone using a program that does the
> above well? Picasa Web gallery caught my eye, not sure it's the right tool
> though. I would still use F-Spot, but albums maybe could be uploaded to
> Picasa web. Before I get a google account to try it out, it would be great
> to get some opinions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>


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